Dr Peter Bergamin
Lecturer in Oriental Studies
Dr Peter Bergamin
Lecturer in Oriental Studies
Peter Bergamin is Lecturer in Oriental Studies at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Peter specialises on the British Mandate for Palestine, with a particular interest in Maximalist-Revisionist Zionism.
His first monograph, The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology (I.B. Tauris, 2020), focused on the ideological and political genesis of one of the major leaders of pro-Fascist, Far-Right Zionism, in the 1920s and 30s. He is preparing a manuscript that focuses on the role of Jewish anti-British resistance in Britain’s withdrawal from the Palestine Mandate. His current research looks at Anglo-Jewry in the first half of the Twentieth Century, using the British Zionists Paul and Romana Goodman as a case study.
Articles & book chapters
Recent Podcasts:
- ‘What is Zionism’ (14 Apr, 2024), on Dan Snow’s History Hits:
https://podfollow.com/dan-snows-history-hit/episode/2a16d5ff7608203c6ffc8e6e6dcef16912b2e83e/view
Recent Publications:
- ‘What Can Resist the Will of England in Palestine?’: Christian Zionism in England before the Balfour Declaration, in (Colin Shindler, ed.) The Routedge Handbook on Zionism (London: Routledge, 2024), pp. 453-68.
- ‘Israel studies in the UK: the history of an idea’. Journal of Israeli History, 1–17 (8 May 2024) https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2023.2349346
- Review of Theodore Lessing (trans. Peter C. Appelbaum), Jewish Self-Hate,
- German Historical Institute London Bulletin,Vol. XLIV, No. 2 (Nov. 2022), 163–7. https://www.ghil.ac.uk/publications/bulletin/ghil-bulletin-44-2022-no-2
- (Abigail Green and Peter Bergamin), ‘Vera Salomons and the Kotel: reading international Jewish history through a Jewish country house’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol 21, Issue 2 (2022). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/14725886.2021.2008795?needAccess=true
- ‘Revisionist Zionism in Israel’, in : Kumaraswamy P.R. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Israel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2717-0_10-1
- The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology (I.B. Tauris, 2020). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-making-of-the-israeli-far-right-9781838604790/